V 0.3.1 released!

NewsBot · 31 August 2022 17:08

V 0.3.1 has been released.

Anonymous structs.

Lots of bug fixes: 90% of all bugs ever submitted are closed.

Major improvements to the fast native backend including linking support on Linux. The goal is to be able to self host V soon.

Parallelized cc step. Speeds up -prod and clang/gcc compilation by 300-500% (depending on
the number of cores). Experimental and hidden behind a -paralell-cc flag, soon to be the default.

New keyword/type: nil. Only to be used inside unsafe. Replaces voidptr(0).

V can now find code in the src/ directory. This allows making V repos much cleaner.

Intel C compiler support.

Older macOS support (<10.12).

os.mkdir() now has an optional mode parameter.

Full termux support via $if termux {, more predictable logging on Android.

Go backend fixes.

More type checks.

DOOM is now translated/compiled and launched on CI servers. A screenshot of the running game
is made via vgret and is compared to the expected result.

VLS performance…

Link: Release 0.3.1 · vlang/v · GitHub